Lady&#39;s hat-pin shield.



J. M. NORWOOD.

LADYS HAT PIN SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.28, 191s.

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Application filed March 28, 11213. l`Serial No. 757,468.

To all whom it may concern Be it known'that, JAY M. Nonwoon, a citizen of the United' States, resident of Phoenix, in the countyof Maricopa and State of Arizonaihavemade a certain new and useful Invention in Ladies Hat-Pin Shields; and I declare the followingto be a full, clear, andeXact description'of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make 'and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersbr figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side view of the invention, partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the head revolved to move one branch pivotally. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the invention. Fig. 4 is an end view of the same. Fig. 5 is a similar view with the parts in the positions shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6 6, Fig. 3. Fig. is a similar view with the parts in the positions shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 8 includes detail inside and end views of one branch. Fig. 9 includes similar views of the other branch.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, secure and easily manipulated protecting attachment or guard for the hat pins used by women for fastening on their hats; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of devices, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, designed to illustrate the invention, the numeral 2, indicates the protecting attachment or holding guard, and 3, an ordinary hat pin, the pointed end of which, projecting outside of the crown of the hat, is regarded as a source of casual injury.

The protecting attachment 2, consists of a broad head 4, which may be a simple disk o-f metal or may be of ornamental character, such as the taste of the wearer may approve. To the head is secured a central stem portion 5, having interior wedge form clamps, movable means of pressure being provided, in connection with the stem portion, for manipulation to cause the clamps to open or loosen a little, to allow the protector to be readily slid upon the pointed end portion of the pin, in such wise as to completely inclose it, and to sufficient extent to bring its clamps in position to bear upon the pin, this bearad .8'. tolti-lated, @nass oficio armsior branches Y9 andA 10, which "are longitudinally in con-tact and are connected or pivoted together at 12,`in'such wise that each branch is 3 movable transversely with respect to the other.V One of these branches 9, carries the pivotal end lug 8, which is centrally seated in the base of the head 4. The other branch 10, carries an end lug 12, which engages a curved holding guide or cam slot 13, of said base. This cam is disposed, in its initial portion near the pivot lug 8, and transversely with reference to the plane ofthe meeting facesof the branches, and extending around the pivot seat to a distal end sufficiently removed from the center pivot to cause the branches, when the stem portion is turned upon its pivotal end in one direction, to take a crosswise or open position, governed by the fulcrum pivot 12. And when turned in the opposite direction, the cam operates to close the branches together. One of these branches is provided with a wedge lug or cam lug 14, at one side of the pivot 12, and the branch is provided with a wedge lug or cam lug 15, at the other side of this pivot. These lugs have inside bearing faces to engage the hat pin, these faces being disposed nearly in line with one side of the pivot 12, this being an interior and intermediate bearing at the side of the longitudinal groove seat 15a, provided in the meeting faces of the branches to receive the end portion of the hat pin.

The attachment, having been manipulated to open the bearing between the wedges, is pushed on the protruding point portion of the hat pin, until its wedges are in position to engage such portion. llhen the head is manipulated to cause the branches to come' together, thereby forcing the wedges to engage the hat pin so as to hold the attachment thereon by a powerful pressure, which, in the construction shown, is a bending o-r warping pressure, securely held by the cam or compression device against opening to loosen the point portion of the pin, until manipulated for this purpose.

I claim:

1. In a hat pin guard, a head having a cam, a main stem member having an eXtension in line therewith pivotally mounted in said head, and a lever stem member having a ulcrum connection with said main member and at one end engagement with said cam to swing the lever member laterally of and toward and away from said main member upon turning the main member upon its pivotal extension, said members having means for clamping engagement with the pin.

2. In a hat pin guard, a head having a cam slot, a main stem member having an eccentric extension in line therewith pivotally mounted in said head, and a lever stem member having intermediately of its length a ulorum Connection with said main member and at its inner end engagement with said cam slot to swing the lever member laterally of and toward and away from the main member upon turning the main mem ber upon its pivotal extension, said members having upon opposite sides of said ulcrum connection means for Clamping engagement with the pin.

l'n testimony whereof I my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JAY M. NORWOOD. TWitnesses WM. M. CosTLEY, SCOTT K. SNIvELY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

